Several independent analyses of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) indicate that it has achieved mixed results and has failed to effectively serve disadvantaged youth and school dropouts. It can only offer short-term, low-cost programs, and has difficulty in attracting youths. The number of dropouts being served is declining. The legislation's effectiveness is also undermined by its limited supportive services and the elimination of training stipends. Work experience programs, combined with remedial education and job placement, have had a positive long-term impact on disadvantaged youth, but further budget cuts will cripple those JTPA services. Minority workers in the 16-24 age group will account for an increasingly larger segment of the future labor force. Hispanics, the nation's youngest major subpopulation, not only have a higher fertility rate than Whites or Blacks, but they also have the highest secondary school dropout rate in the country. This means they will suffer a disproportionate impact if adequate employment and training services are not available to them. Already the increase in numbers of employed Hispanics has become less rapid than the pace of their population growth. To cope with these problems, the JTPA must be capable of training the present and future labor supply and stimulating labor market demand. (PS)